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Colt Single Action: From Patersons to Peacemakers

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I must say I expected a good book following the purchase of Metallic Cartridge Conversions, what you get with Colt Single Action: From Patersons to Peacemakers is a superbly produced book covering this genre. Not only informative as you would expect but written so well, not over technical just sheer good interesting subject reading, add the brilliance of Dennis Adler's photography you have one of the best books on the market. If you are a devotee of R L Wilson's books as I am, he now has some very serious competition.

This book is chuck-full of information; the opening chapters, particularly those pages dealing with Patterson rifle conversions are unique in my experience! Mr. Leavett has some fascinating pieces.

The illustrations are of the highest quality; I was happy to see the coverage given to the engraved versions of the "second-generation" black-powder revolvers, having owned a few myself.

This is right in there with the best $19.99 you can spend on a gun book.

Believe it or not...I bought this for my 13 year old niece's birthday!
She's in the Single Action Shooters and LOVES THIS BOOK!
Beautiful pictures along with lots of history and facts.

This book has beautiful photos and interesting commentary on the history of the Colt revolvers. It is an enjoyable book to flip through and I would recommend it for any Colt enthusiast. It does not contain the details about the guns that a collector might want, but that was clearly not the point of this book. For the price, this book is an absolute bargain for the photos of many rare pistols. I highly recommend it.

If you like the history of 19th century firearms, you will enjoy this book. It is chock full of photos of every imaginable Colt single action you could imagine and then some. Rare one-of-a-kind firearms are pictured in detail. This book will be considered a classic years from now.

This book really enlightened me when it came to the Paterson models. The overall history of Sam Colt was well told, and the photographs were outstanding. All in all an excellent read. From this book and several of Dennis Adler's other books I've noticed that he focuses on the highly decorated and engraved models, and there seemed to be pictures of more engraved models than regular arms that people used frequently. But they deserve their place too, you can see the worn and used arms through an internet search, this book tells the story well with great pictures of the lesser used but mainly looked at guns. I did like it so much I had to read it twice. Well written!

Forget R.L.Wilson, this is the book you want. Adler is a fine writer and authoritative on Colt single actions. Some of the best photos of old Colts and factory engraving anywhere.

I Like this book because all of th engraving on the guns ,good clear pictures ,and it's a good size book

this book is great, i love the informaiton about every gun. i would highly recommend this book to wany gun lover.

This is an excellent book. Extremely well researched and written with many beautifully presented photos depicting the foundations and development of America's quintessential gunmaker.